BRADENTON, On The Picturesque and Sunny West Coast of Florida,
, USA, PLANET EARTH, MILKY WAY, LOCAL GROUP, SPIRALING SLOWLY THROUGH THE UNIVERSE

Join Date: Jul 2006

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"Claim to fame?"
Not really braggin', but probably should add:
I've played for 2 Presidential Inaugurations (Regan's second, and Geo. H.W.'s only)and performed for the Regans at the White House. My band opened the '84 Olympics in Sarajevo, also played at '80 Lake Placid Winter Games. Not bad for a "country boy".

In 1963, I finally made the cheerleading squad (I was an alternate) due to one of the girls braking her leg snow skiing. I was thrilled. We had a game in Lapeer, Michigan. It was one of those foul raining almost cold enough to snow days. There was no one in the stands. Only the players and cheerleaders were insane enough to be out in that nasty weather. But this was my moment of glory, I had the cute uniform, sassy hairdo, I was a cheerleader!The tradition was that during half time the cheerleading teams did welcome cheers to the opponet team. There I was front and center. I went to do my split eagle jump, my saddle shoe got stuck and came off in the mud and I landed on my glory. Red faced and mortified, my teammates pulled me out of the mud bath and I spent the rest of the game wraped in a blanket with tears running down my face. I changed to student council after that.LOL One of the reason's that I will never forget Lapeer!!!!!

I was across the same gas pump from Minnie Driver a couple of years ago, she lived here in town for a while. She was filling her own fuel tank.

Last year my engine company was doing structure protection at a fire in Malibu and the house we were assigned to was the female half of the 80's group "Boy meets girl". Very nice folks, they made us a very nice dinner, signed and gave us some C/Ds.

As a teenager, I was a material witness in a murder trial in Los Gatos, CA. Not really a talent, but quite an experience. It was a very famous case locally. A young girl named Tania Zack had disappeared, and I found her purse a couple of weeks later in a little-traveled part of a local park. It was a few weeks before they found her body. I remember being very nervous about the publicity, knowing that the killer was still on the loose and unidentified. It was several years before they found the man who did the dirty deed.
It took three trials to decide that he was mentally imbalanced, go figure!

Mexray, I almost bought a '58 or '59 ah sprite with a chevy 350 and a frozen trans. It was white, and it was in Los Gatos, CA. This was in about 1985 or 6.
Too much project for me at the time. Could this be your old one?

Um, a claim that Maggie can comfortably print here is that her great-great-great grandfather and his 5 brothers were early 1800's settlers in southern Mississippi. The house he completed in 1818 is still standing and lived in. The cemetery on the hill behind this house contains many family graves including that of his widowed mother-in-law, who was born in Virginia in 1732 and is the oldest marked grave in Mississippi. The 5 brothers procreated profusely, and she is related to thousands of people throughout Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas!

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On the subject of ancestors, I have a published documentary of my family history going back to the 600's with names and birth dates/ deaths. Many of the Icelandic Sagas were written about my ancestors who lived in the 600's to about 1100 A.D.
Perhaps the most famous viking of all-time, Egil Skallagrimsson, is a relative removed by about 65 or 70 generations, as well as Snorri Sturlusson, the author of The History of the Kings of Norway, The Poetic Edda, and The Saga of Egil Skallagrimsson. These were written in the early 1200's and still are popular today among scholars of Scandinavian literature and history.

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